UNSPSC 50406408: Japanese sweet potatoes

The variety of sweet potatoes known as japanese sweet potatoes

UNSPSC 50406408 Japanese sweet potatoes is a Commodity code covering fresh sweet potatoes for institutional food service, as evidenced by recent state and local solicitations focused on school nutrition programs and correctional-facility feeding operations. State and local governments procuring under this code buy fresh sweet potatoes in bulk for commodity-driven use cases: school lunch and breakfast programs serving hundreds to thousands of students daily, child nutrition grant programs (USDA Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, Child and Adult Care Food Program), senior meal services, and institutional cafeteria operations at correctional facilities. The issuing bodies are predominantly school districts, ranging from small rural districts to major metropolitan systems, along with specialized nutrition programs (Head Start, senior services), state departments of criminal justice, and city human services departments. A handful of cooperatives and consortia (GEC Buying Cooperative, Texas Comptroller Statewide Procurement Division) issue on behalf of multiple constituent agencies.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice has posted multiple sweet-potato solicitations within the recent window, most notably IFB IW253121 (posted June 23, 2026, due June 23, 2026) for sweet potatoes for canning, and IFB IW242176 (posted March 23, 2026, due March 3, 2026), both using electronic submission via Bonfire Hub. Georgia school districts dominate the produce-procurement landscape, with Bulloch County Board of Education issuing an Invitation for Proposal for locally-grown produce including sweet potatoes within 200 miles (posted April 3, 2026, due May 4, 2026), and Bartow County School System seeking local fresh fruits and vegetables with a June 22, 2026 deadline. The code sees activity concentrated in Texas and Georgia, with secondary activity in Florida (Hillsborough County Public Schools FFVP procurement, posted April 13, 2026, due March 11, 2026), Connecticut (Meriden Public Schools, posted March 3, 2026, due February 25, 2026), Missouri (Rockwood R-VI School District, posted March 31, 2026, due April 29, 2026), and scattered solicitations across other states. Institutional buyers emphasize local sourcing and farm-to-table alignment where feasible, organic and natural products when cost-competitive, traceability documentation, and compliance with USDA food-safety standards and Buy American provisions. Most contracts run July through June aligned with the school calendar, award to single or multiple vendors on a line-item basis, and renew for one to four additional one-year terms subject to performance.